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Ever heard the saying that if you eat Greens before you go to sleep, you will have bad dreams? Well hopefully that was actually garden greens being eaten and not something else...Drug smugglers have been shipping drugs as "canned spinach!" See this CBS news report about a coincidental drug bust by an alert inspector.


So if it smells a little funny, you might want to stay away from those "canned" greens before bed..and all other times as well (laugh).

A few weeks ago, I dreamed that I was driving in a really old car, along a path next to a large body of water. Suddenly, without warning, I was snatched off the path and my car turned over several times landing upside down in the water, sinking, with me still strapped in my seat belt. I initially panicked, but pulled myself together and realized I needed to cut the seat belt that had me attached to the sinking car, or else I would drown. I took a deep breath as the water rose all around me, pull… Continue

Have you ever felt like the world is going crazy? Sometimes people can embrace ideas that are blatantly contrary to scripture, and then demand that you approve their "Freedom," by not disagreeing with them, or even warning them that there are consequences to embracing sinful ideas. But this is not a new phenomenon. David summed it up best in Psalms 2 from the King James Version, when he asked the same question in different way.

Psa 2:1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thin… Continue

I often wonder if Christians have developed a Cyborg mentality. We go out to try to make everyone be just like us. We often reinforce this idea through scriptures such as Jesus' instruction to make disciples of men. And anyone who does not do things the way we do, we avoid them like the plague, using such scriptures as "Shun the very appearance of evil," and if a brother will not repent of sin after two or three witnesses, then tell it to the church and let him be considered as a heathen. But I… Continue

Much has been said on the subject of singleness, the gift of singleness and the process of who seeks out whom in the marital relationship. The particular biblical references that come to mind are the proverbs of Solomon stating that "When a man finds a wife, he finds a good thing and obtains favor with the Lord." Another one is Apostle Paul declaring that he preferred single people to stay single, even as he was, so they could devote their attention to the things of God. Even the passage of the… Continue